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bushman

bushman noun: a man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.

Noun (1)

bushman (plural bushmen)

  1. (Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
    • Near-synonym: bushcrafter
    • An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 86
    Synonyms:
    bushcrafter

Noun (2) capitalized: Bushman

Bushman (plural Bushmen)

  1. A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.
    Synonyms:
    Bosjesman, San
  2. (offensive, sometimes) A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.

bushman meaning in Tamil

bushman in Tamil

காடுவழி செல்லும் நாடு சூழ்வாணர்

Synonyms of bushman

Forms of bushman

pluralbushmen
pluralBushmen

Plural of bushman: bushmen

Origin of bushman

From bush + -man.

Words formed from bushman

Questions about bushman

What does bushman mean?
Bushman means a man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
What is bushman in Tamil?
Bushman in Tamil is காடுவழி செல்லும் நாடு சூழ்வாணர். See Bushman meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bushman?
Bushman is a noun.
What is the plural of bushman?
The plural of bushman is bushmen.

Words near bushman in the dictionary

  1. bushlips
  2. bushlot
  3. bushlots
  4. bushly
  5. bushmakinite
  6. bushman
  7. bushman grass
  8. bushman poison
  9. bushman's breakfast
  10. bushman's clock
  11. bushman's clocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bushman (page history and authors); Bushman (page history and authors); bushman (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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